Washing-machine.



No. 7|6,843. Paten ted Dec. 23, I902.=

. B. mummy WASHlNG MACHINE.

(Application filed May $1901.

(No Modei.)

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,843, dated December 23,1902- Applioation filed May 6, 1901.

To all whom, it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN H. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Delaware, in the county of Delaware and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing-"llachines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for washing fabrics of the kind in which the water or other cleansing fluid is alternately sucked and forced through the meshes of the fabric by the action of a reciprocating cup ora plurality of such cups; and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views, respectively, of the entire machine and the central standard or support.

Ais the standard or support, having a handheld B, apivot C, and guides L L. This standard or support is preferably formed of a single strip of metal bent to form the handheld B and split at the ends to form a number of guides LL. These guides are bent backward parallel to the standard, leaving their ends free. Said guides may also be formed independently and secured rigidly to the standard in any convenient manner, as by welding.

Connected to thestandardby means of the pivot C is the lever D, having a convenient handle E and holes M M. Through the holes M M and working loosely therein are passed rods F F, bent into inverted- U shape. I prefer to make these rods in the manner indicated; but the precise method is immaterial. The inverted cups G G G G preferably of heavy sheet metal, are secured by their hottoms to the rods F F in any convenient manner,the cups first being arranged on the guides L L, as shown, by means of the ears K, which have holes to receive said guides.

The operation of my device is simple. It is placed with the cups on the fabric to be washed in a vessel containing water or other Serial No. 68,925. (No model.)

cleansing fluid, such as gasolene, and held by the handheld B. The lever D is then 0perated, moving the cups up and down, the cups sliding on the guides L L. The movement of the cups sucks and forces the fluid through the meshes of the fabric, with the effect that foreign matter is rapidly washed out.

My device is readily assembled and taken apart, due to the guides being free-ended. By unscrewing the inside nuts the rods F F may be raised clear and swungoutward, when the cups may be lifted off the guides and the whole compactly folded for shipment.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine of the kind described, the combination with a standard having at its lower end a plurality of vertical, f rec-ended guides substantially parallel thereto, and integral therewith, of a plurality of cups movably mounted on said guides, and means for vertically reciprocating said cups, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2.,In a washing-machine of the kind de scribed, a standard or support having at one end a plurality of free-ended guides, substantially parallel thereto, and integral therewith,

substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a washing-machine of the kind described, a standard or support, consisting of a strip of metal bent upon itself at its center to form a handhold, and having its ends upturned to form free-ended guides, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN H. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

F. A. OWEN, J. M. SOHAFFNER. 

